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Name: Uranophane RRUFF ID: R050380 Ideal Chemistry: Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O Locality: Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA Source: University of Arizona Mineral Museum 5973 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Orange massive coating Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
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RRUFF ID: | R050380.1 | |||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 15.971(5)Å b: 7.020(1)Å c: 6.670(2)Å alpha: 90.° beta: 97.15(2)° gamma: 90.° Volume: 742.1(3)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Uranophane | |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Websky M (1853) Ueber die geognostischen Verhältnisse der Erzlagerstätten von Kupferberg und Rudelstadt in Schlesien, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 5, 373-438 [view file] |
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Nováček R (1935) Study on some secondary uranium minerals (in English), Vestniku Královské Ceské Spolecnosti Nauk, 7, 1-36 [view file] |
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Steinocher V, Nováček R (1939) On β-uranotile, American Mineralogist, 24, 324-338 [view file] |
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Stohl F V, Smith D K (1981) The crystal chemistry of the uranyl silicate minerals, American Mineralogist, 66, 610-625 [view file] |
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Ginderow D (1988) Structure de l´uranophane alpha, Ca(UO2)2(SiO3OH)2·5H2O, Acta Crystallographica, C44, 421-424 |
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Jambor J L, Puziewicz J (1989) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 74, 500-505 [view file] |
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Barinova A V, Rastsvetaeva R K, Sidorenko G A, Pushcharovskii D Y (2001) Crystal structure of high-symmetry α-uranophane, Doklady Chemistry, 378, 122-124 |
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Jambor J L, Roberts A C (2002) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 87, 765-768 [view file] |
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Frost R L, Čejka J, Weier M L, Martens W (2006) Molecular structure of the uranyl silicates - a Raman spectroscopic study, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 37, 538-551 |
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Plášil J, Sejkora J, Čejka J, Škoda R, Goliáš V (2009) Supergene mineralization of the Medvedín uranium deposit, Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic, Journal of Geosciences, 54, 15-56 |
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Plášil J (2018) Structural complexity of uranophane and uranophane-β: implications for their formation and occurrence, European Journal of Mineralogy, 30, 253-257 |
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Miyawaki R, Hatert F, Pasero M, Mills S J (2022) IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) Newsletter 69, European Journal of Mineralogy, 34, 463-468 [view file] |
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Hatert F, Mills S J, Pasero M, Miyawaki R, Bosi F (2023) CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes, Mineralogical Magazine, 87, 225-232 |
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